Senior Software Engineer

VERSANT Media is an industry-changing media and entertainment business known for its iconic brands. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Operations team, focusing on building tools and systems that enhance developer productivity and deliver platform enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Own features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• Build and maintain internal tools and platforms that improve developer productivity across engineering teams
• Develop backend services, APIs, and data models that support platform capabilities and scale across multiple properties
• Build frontend interfaces for internal tooling using React and Next.js, ensuring intuitive and efficient user experiences
• Take ownership of platform outcomes, working closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage
• Partner with Platform and Infrastructure teams to leverage shared services and tooling effectively
• Collaborate with SRE teams on reliability, observability, and incident response for systems you own
• Work alongside Operations and Platform teams to ensure smooth operational handoffs and support readiness
• Instrument applications with logging, metrics, and tracing to enable proactive monitoring and fast debugging
• Participate in on-call rotations for services you build, triaging and resolving production issues
• Manage deployments through CI/CD pipelines, including feature flags and staged rollouts
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain code quality
• Continuously improve development practices, tools, and workflows within the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training/experience
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript
• Strong understanding of frontend development including React, state management, and responsive design principles
• Solid experience building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and database systems
• Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or productivity tooling
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment with best practices for testing (unit, integration, e2e)
• Proven ability to architect scalable, secure, and maintainable applications
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Strong skills in version control (Git) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Experience developing high-traffic platforms or internal developer tooling at scale
• Deep understanding of system design, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems
• Knowledge of security best practices including authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT), encryption, and secure data handling
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing patterns
• Familiarity with observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Experience with feature flags, A/B testing, and progressive rollout strategies
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a collaborative, learning-focused culture
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted development fundamentals, including prompt engineering and effective human-AI collaboration workflows
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar assistants to accelerate development and improve code quality
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability
• Interest in exploring and integrating AI/ML capabilities into platform tooling and developer workflows